Cosmetic surgery: "Breaking" the legs to be taller
The cosmetic surgery is that infallible to those who see in his body, a defect to be corrected and also have a baggy pocket that cover the high costs of interventions ally. We do not want to judge anyone , everyone is free to make their own decisions if they find happiness and that self-esteem that sometimes does not offer us what we see before the mirror.
Solution? Go through the operating room. A facial correction, some wrinkles less, one size more chest, a little less double chin and ... why not a few more inches? That's right, in recent years it's becoming fashionable to raise our height by 5 to 8 centimeters more. But how? It sure surprises you. We explain it to you below.
Painful surgeries to be taller
The truth is that this type of operation has been doing for a long time. Although only in a collective. In the case of people affected by dwarfism or children with growth problems , individuals who, for example, have one limb longer than another. It was something usual.
But lately these interventions have a purely aesthetic purpose. Men who are anxious for example to reach the eighty meter or even exceed it. People who live with the complex of their short stature, visit daily the most prestigious clinics of aesthetic surgeries in search of those extra centimeters with which to achieve their happiness. Your dreams and your pride.
Although we must make an important warning: not only the operation is painful, after it opens a whole process of recovery and physiotherapy, where one must always maintain their motivation and integrity. Do you want to know what an intervention is really like to be higher? The surgery starts with a fracture of the tibia . So is. Obviously they will not do it live. The patient is anesthetized, but the fracture done by the doctors is real. Later, a telescopic metal rod is inserted into the bone.
Second step? Patience, a lot of patience, now we must let the days pass so that the bones calcify again and these rods, offer, so to speak, a few inches more as the bone unites. Normally, it grows by millimeter per day . New bony formations are created in this complex stretching as slow as painful.
According to doctors, the process ends after 3 or 4 months. Winning well between 5 and 8 centimeters. But be careful, because we have not finished this transformation, now the patient will have to devote between 6 months and a year to intense physiotherapy to recover completely. As a curiosity we will tell you that this intervention has a cost of about 90 thousand dollars in the United States. But the truth is that most people travel to India where spending is much more affordable.
We must conclude by warning that this type of operations usually involve many complications. And very serious. In addition to suffering, they can cause serious damage to the nerves. There are people who after the intervention, have hip problems, circulatory problems and osteoporosis , even paralysis of the legs. Without counting, there are thousands of people who now live with a chronic pain that makes them regret every day of the decision made.
Sometimes, 5 centimeters more in our legs, are not always synonymous with happiness